**Source:** *Lenin Miscellany* XVI, p. 99

STATEMENTS TO THE MANDATE COMMISSION OF THE THIRD CONGRESS

**A.
TO THE MANDATE COMMISSION.**

At a session of the O.C.,¹ I reported a written request from comrade Filatov (real name) for admission to the congress with consultative voice. Comrade Filatov is the author of articles in *Vpered* on insurrection — V.S. He presented to the congress a letter and a report-pamphlet: "Application of Tactics and Fortification to Popular Insurrection" (in a suitcase left in Boulogne). Concerning comrade Filatov, I ask that you question comrades Velsky and Voinov, who worked with him in Paris.

Lenin.

¹ Sessions of the O.C. took place on April 24 (11) and 25 (12) (see *Protocols*, ed. 1924, p. 41).

² At the fourth session of the congress on April 27 (14), the invitation to V. Filatov (Severtsev) with consultative voice was rejected (see *Protocols*, pp. 96–97). At the congress Lenin specifically noted that he "did not propose inviting comrade [i.e., Filatov. —Ed.], but only transmitted his statement to the congress."

**B.
TO THE COMMISSION FOR VERIFICATION OF THE CONGRESS COMPOSITION.**

At a session of the O.C. on April 25, 1905, I forgot to put forward a proposal for inviting to the congress with consultative voice comrade Arnatsky (real name [NB]), member of the Kazan Committee. I request that the Commission consider this proposal.

Comrade Arnatsky is abroad, in France, and expressed to me his agreement to come to the congress at his own expense. He is leaving very soon for Russia and would be able to quickly report to his committee about the congress. The Organizational Committee, despite all efforts, has been unable to obtain a reply from Kazan. There is now almost no hope of participation by the Kazan Committee in the congress. Our attempts from here to establish contact with Kazan have also failed; our letters have received no reply. Arnatsky too has been unable from here to establish contact with Kazan. Should we not, given the impossibility of having a delegate from the Kazan Committee at the congress, invite comrade Arnatsky with consultative voice, as a member of the Committee?

Lenin.

*Lenin Miscellany* XVI